Cost Of Producing Training Video On IMac?
Q: Cost of Producing Training video on iMac?
I am a windows user who came up with a way to come back to the Apple
world by proposing to a company that i could do training videos on an
iMac. (this way I could get the money to buy one)
Since I had never done this before they asked me to create a sample
and rented me an iMac to do the work. Now i have to give them a price
for producing more of these videos. There may be a total of 25 to 30.
Now, I'm new to this, but i think I did a decent job. There is well
edited footage as well as shots which incorporate picture in picture
(used QT pro and masked certain parts of one shot and overlayed on
another). I also have some simple animations I ceated using Flash.
The whole video is about 10 minutes, but it took me over 65 hours to
create including naration, etc.)
Since i have never done this before, I am wondering what this would
cost them in the real world. I know I am not a pro, but I want to
make sure I am getting paid fairly. I think I should get at least 50%
of what a pro would get.
Any feedback would be greatly apreciated?
A:- It's important to understand this sort of thing would be done in a fraction
of the time in the real world but at least $100/hr. If your certain about
the 25-30 videos, a package deal would certainly be in order.
I'd say an even grand per video is a good deal for them and for you.
- part of what you can charge depends on what kind of training videos you
are doing. If it is how to operate a copier, it might be easier to see if
there are generic training videos out there.
on the other hand if you are doing Process Safety Management (PSM) program
training vids, Charge them full professional price.
I suppose the same could be said for any Safety or Security video. or any
video that helps the company avoid lawsuits
- Here is a lit tle more detail.
1). I shot the video for the first "demo" video, but they would
provide the video for subsequent videos, so i just handle the post
production.
2. There is never a guarantee that there would be 30 videos, they are
just throwing a number out. I think some videos would be similar to
others, so i was thinking of a tired pricing like this.
a) original for item A would be $2500
b) variations to item A call it A2 $1000
v) modifications (i.e. updates to the process $500
d) DVD creating $10 / DVD ( i know DVDs are less than $10, but there
is some waste if the first does not come out well, etc.)